Nation: Jewish nation

Place of birth: Brunswick

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1April 30th, 777-1February 23rd, 855) is a famous German mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geodesist and one of the founders of modern mathematics. Gauss is regarded as one of the most important mathematicians in history and is known as the "prince of mathematics".

Gauss ranks alongside Archimedes and Newton as the three greatest mathematicians in the world. He made great achievements in his life, with 1 10 achievements named after his name "Gauss", which is the highest among mathematicians. He made contributions to number theory, algebra, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, mechanics, electrostatics, astronomy, matrix theory and optics.

family background

Gauss is the only child of a poor Prussian Jewish couple. My mother is the daughter of a poor stonemason. Clever as she is, she has no education. Before becoming Gauss's father's second wife, she was a maid. His father used to be a gardener, a foreman, an assistant to a businessman and an appraiser of a small insurance company.

It has become an anecdote that Gauss was able to correct his father's debt account when he was three years old. He once said that he learned to calculate on Macon's pile of things. Being able to perform complex calculations in his mind is a gift from God for his life.

My father Gerhard de Drich was extremely strict with Gauss, even a little too strict. Gauss respected his father and inherited his honest and cautious character. Gauss is lucky to have a mother who supports his success. Since his birth, Gauss has been very curious about all phenomena and things, and he is determined to get to the bottom of it, which is beyond the scope allowed by a child. When her husband reprimanded the child for this, she always supported Gauss and resolutely opposed the stubborn husband's attempt to make his son as ignorant as he was.

In the process of growing up, young Gauss mainly benefited from his mother Roger and his uncle Flier. Flier Ritchie is smart, enthusiastic, intelligent and capable, and has made great achievements in textile trade. He found his sister's son clever, so he spent part of his energy on this little genius and developed Gauss's intelligence in a lively way.

A few years later, Gauss, who had grown up and achieved great success, recalled what his uncle had done for him and felt that it was crucial to his success. He remembered his prolific thoughts and said sadly, "We lost a genius because of the death of our uncle". It is precisely because Flier Ritchie has an eye for talents and often persuades her brother-in-law to let her children develop into scholars that Gauss didn't become a gardener or a mason.

Luo Jieya really hopes that her son can do something big, and she also cherishes Gauss's talent. However, she did not dare to let her son engage in mathematics research that could not support his family easily. When Gauss 19 years old, although he made many great achievements in mathematics, she still asked her math friend W Bolyai: Will Gauss have a future? Bolyai said that her son would become "the greatest mathematician in Europe", and her eyes were filled with tears.